What do you expect from a nation whose national anthem asks a question?--Alaric Phlogiston
The CEOs are leaving Trump's business council. I'd be more impressed if they closed their lobbying offices.
Aristotle said that talking and thinking were the same thing. Animals speak of pleasure and pain, people think of the just and unjust.
Catachresis: noun:
The average age of the fathers of newborns in the United States has climbed by 3.5 years over the past 4 decades, growing from 27.4 years in 1972 to 30.9 years in 2015.
In a cave in Mexico three skeletons have been found dating to about 13,000 B.C., earlier than the freezing of the Bering Strait. They look like ethnic Indonesians.
114 thousand social security checks will be garnished this month in payment for defaulted payment of student loans the unfortunate grandmother co-signed. The "student" was not able--or willing--to pay even the interest.
What is...3122 Florence?
The investing market is fascinating. The gains in the U.S. market in dollars so far this year is 11.26%. The number of publicly traded stocks in the U.S. is shrinking. Many companies are going private to avoid the federal rules required of public companies and are being financed by venture and private equity money. The rise in the stock market over the last two years is related almost entirely to the rise of five companies. The rest of the market this year is up only 2%. And, despite the rise in the market, the relationship to currency is important; for example, if you invested in the market with euros, you would be up only 2%.
There is indeed, as he [Reinhold Niebuhr] says elsewhere, “an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.” To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behavior as individuals within the group.--Hayek
A big, bright, near-Earth asteroid, known as 3122 Florence, made a safe fly by Friday night. Florence is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Object. At its closest, it was about 7 million km (4.4 million miles) away from earth. According to NASA officials, the asteroid hasn't been this close to Earth since 1890, and it won't be this close again until 2500. "Asteroid 3122 Florence was discovered in 1981 by astronomer Schelte 'Bobby' Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia," reports Space.com. "The asteroid is named in honor of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who pioneered modern nursing.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cab-thoughts-72713.html
On this day in 1522 the Vittoria, one of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships, arrived at SanlÚcar de Barrameda in Spain, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the world. The Vittoria was commanded by Basque navigator Juan SebastiÁn de Elcano, who took charge of the vessel after the murder of Magellan in the Philippines in April 1521.
It will be very interesting to see how the recent Trump DACA decision is discussed and debated. Essentially it reverses Obama's executive order, an act that Obama himself thought unconstitutional but did anyway. So Trump's act will be supported by the 200 or so hooded white supremacists in Alabama but also by people with concerns about the balance of power in the Federal Government and adherence to the constitutional structure. Which viewpoint will be prominent in the discussions, do ya think?
The American Pet Products Association estimates that in 2017, $69.4 billion will be spent on US pet care, up from $66.7 billion in 2016.
Malaria killed a 4-year-old girl in Italy, raising fears that the mosquito-borne disease has returned to the country after decades. Zero cases of home-grown malaria were reported in Europe in 2015. One suspect mentioned...global warming.
Healthy societies do not fall apart over slow, widely predicted, relatively small economic adjustments of the sort painted by climate analysis. Societies do fall apart from war, disease or chaos. Climate policy must compete with other long-term threats for always-scarce resources. (wsj)
On Alabama's undefeated 1966 team, only 21% of the players weighed more than 200 pounds. The heaviest weighed 223; the linemen averaged 194. The quarterback, who weighed 177, was Ken Stabler, who went on to a Hall of Fame NFL career — and to "moderately severe" CTE before death from cancer. Today, many high school teams are much beefier than the 1966 Crimson Tide. Of the 114 members of Alabama's 2016 squad, just 25 weighed less than 200 and 20 weighed more than 300. In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds. Last season, 390 weighed 300 pounds or more, and six topped 350. (will)
Reuters (9/5, Lehman) reports that “a five-year study” suggests “the percentage of US adults under age 65 who skip essential prescription drugs because of price has declined.” However, “consistently, problems with financial access to medication were more common in cancer survivors.”
Did you ever wonder why "Bush league" was never applied to the Bush candidacy?
Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
In a new book on Darwin, the author, AN Wilson, points out that it was the Church that criticized Darwin most is based on how many of the established scientists were working at the older universities, where the fellows were clergymen. They were attacking Darwin as scientists, not as Christians, Wilson writes, so this was not so much about theology but an issue of “an academic orthodoxy under threat”.
Hackers have been burrowing their way inside the critical infrastructure of energy and other companies in the U.S. and elsewhere, warns cybersecurity giant Symantec.
AAAAaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a graph:
The CEOs are leaving Trump's business council. I'd be more impressed if they closed their lobbying offices.
Aristotle said that talking and thinking were the same thing. Animals speak of pleasure and pain, people think of the just and unjust.
Catachresis: noun:
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misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor, occurring either in error or for rhetorical effect. ety: Abūsiō (“abuse, misuse”) is the “pure” Latin word for “misuse of a word” in rhetoric; Latin catachrēsis is a direct borrowing from Greek katáchrēsis, which first meant “analogical extension of a term” (e.g., calling a joint of a grass or reed a “knee”). Katáchrēsis in Greek later acquired the sense “misuse of a word, misapplication of a word or phrase.” Hardly any two people agree on particular examples, one critic’s catachresis being another’s “striking” mixed metaphor. Catachresis entered English in the late 16th century.
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The average age of the fathers of newborns in the United States has climbed by 3.5 years over the past 4 decades, growing from 27.4 years in 1972 to 30.9 years in 2015.
It was at Cambridge that Darwin read Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative – a book that was partly a travel account and partly a scientific treatise of the German explorer’s expedition through South America. It was this publication, Darwin said, that “determined me to travel in distant countries, and led me to volunteer as naturalist in Her Majesty’s ship Beagle”.
He returned to England in October 1836 with more than 1,500 specimens preserved in spirits and almost 4,000 skins, bones and other items. Then the real work began: sorting, classifying, writing and thinking. He published The Voyage of the Beagle (and sent it in trepidation to his hero Humboldt, who admired it) and began to make notes on his “species theory”.
In a cave in Mexico three skeletons have been found dating to about 13,000 B.C., earlier than the freezing of the Bering Strait. They look like ethnic Indonesians.
114 thousand social security checks will be garnished this month in payment for defaulted payment of student loans the unfortunate grandmother co-signed. The "student" was not able--or willing--to pay even the interest.
What is...3122 Florence?
The investing market is fascinating. The gains in the U.S. market in dollars so far this year is 11.26%. The number of publicly traded stocks in the U.S. is shrinking. Many companies are going private to avoid the federal rules required of public companies and are being financed by venture and private equity money. The rise in the stock market over the last two years is related almost entirely to the rise of five companies. The rest of the market this year is up only 2%. And, despite the rise in the market, the relationship to currency is important; for example, if you invested in the market with euros, you would be up only 2%.
There is indeed, as he [Reinhold Niebuhr] says elsewhere, “an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.” To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behavior as individuals within the group.--Hayek
A big, bright, near-Earth asteroid, known as 3122 Florence, made a safe fly by Friday night. Florence is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Object. At its closest, it was about 7 million km (4.4 million miles) away from earth. According to NASA officials, the asteroid hasn't been this close to Earth since 1890, and it won't be this close again until 2500. "Asteroid 3122 Florence was discovered in 1981 by astronomer Schelte 'Bobby' Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia," reports Space.com. "The asteroid is named in honor of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who pioneered modern nursing.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cab-thoughts-72713.html
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"I have not the pleasure of knowing my reader but I would stake ten to one that for six months he has been making Utopias, and if so, th...
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Asteroidal meteorites are hundreds of millions of years older than the oldest rocks existing on Earth. They are also approximately 60 million years older than the Moon.
On this day in 1522 the Vittoria, one of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships, arrived at SanlÚcar de Barrameda in Spain, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the world. The Vittoria was commanded by Basque navigator Juan SebastiÁn de Elcano, who took charge of the vessel after the murder of Magellan in the Philippines in April 1521.
It will be very interesting to see how the recent Trump DACA decision is discussed and debated. Essentially it reverses Obama's executive order, an act that Obama himself thought unconstitutional but did anyway. So Trump's act will be supported by the 200 or so hooded white supremacists in Alabama but also by people with concerns about the balance of power in the Federal Government and adherence to the constitutional structure. Which viewpoint will be prominent in the discussions, do ya think?
The American Pet Products Association estimates that in 2017, $69.4 billion will be spent on US pet care, up from $66.7 billion in 2016.
B.C. archaeologists have excavated a settlement in the area — in traditional Heiltsuk Nation territory — and dated it to 14,000 years ago, during the last ice age where glaciers covered much of North America.
“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
Malaria killed a 4-year-old girl in Italy, raising fears that the mosquito-borne disease has returned to the country after decades. Zero cases of home-grown malaria were reported in Europe in 2015. One suspect mentioned...global warming.
Healthy societies do not fall apart over slow, widely predicted, relatively small economic adjustments of the sort painted by climate analysis. Societies do fall apart from war, disease or chaos. Climate policy must compete with other long-term threats for always-scarce resources. (wsj)
On Alabama's undefeated 1966 team, only 21% of the players weighed more than 200 pounds. The heaviest weighed 223; the linemen averaged 194. The quarterback, who weighed 177, was Ken Stabler, who went on to a Hall of Fame NFL career — and to "moderately severe" CTE before death from cancer. Today, many high school teams are much beefier than the 1966 Crimson Tide. Of the 114 members of Alabama's 2016 squad, just 25 weighed less than 200 and 20 weighed more than 300. In 1980, only three NFL players weighed 300 or more pounds. Last season, 390 weighed 300 pounds or more, and six topped 350. (will)
Reuters (9/5, Lehman) reports that “a five-year study” suggests “the percentage of US adults under age 65 who skip essential prescription drugs because of price has declined.” However, “consistently, problems with financial access to medication were more common in cancer survivors.”
Did you ever wonder why "Bush league" was never applied to the Bush candidacy?
Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
In a new book on Darwin, the author, AN Wilson, points out that it was the Church that criticized Darwin most is based on how many of the established scientists were working at the older universities, where the fellows were clergymen. They were attacking Darwin as scientists, not as Christians, Wilson writes, so this was not so much about theology but an issue of “an academic orthodoxy under threat”.
Hackers have been burrowing their way inside the critical infrastructure of energy and other companies in the U.S. and elsewhere, warns cybersecurity giant Symantec.
The Pirates sometimes look so stupid.
The St. Louis Cardinals sent infielder Eliezer Alvarez, their 19th-ranked prospect, to the Philadelphia Phillies for Nicasio.
The Pirates lost Nicasio after putting him on waivers. They did not receive anything in return but shaved $600,000 from their payroll. They said their rationale in not trading him was a competitor would be advantaged.
Leslie Van Houten has been granted parole. Hide the women.
AAAAaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a graph:
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